A Record of Meetings held by P.D. Ouspensky - HolyBooks.com

M R O No, I did not say that I said that by study [of] one cosmos onecould not find all laws governing cosmoses, but that by consideringthree cosmoses one may find them That is a different idea, there is nopromise in itMRS D I find there are intervals when all emotion about the systemvanishes, leaving one with an intellectual interest only What is theright way to think about these intervals before they occur, and what isthe best way of dealing with them when they have occurred?MR O It is impossible to say There are so many different levels, somany different attitudes, understanding can be so differentMISS A Would Mr O explain what is meant by Magnetic Centre?MR O That you are supposed to know It is described in the verybeginning, I think in the third lectureMISS A Then I must have heard it, as I was here for the third readingSo I suppose I must have forgotten itMR O It has been repeated since then If I have time I will try toexplain, but you can ask somebody else and perhaps they will be ableto explain it to youMR D We have been told man has seven minds, or centres, four ofwhich, namely intellectual, emotional, instinctive and moving, havebeen explained to us May we now hear more about the sex centre andbe told what are the other two as yet unnamed centres?MR O About the other two centres, you have heard They are higheremotional and higher mental centres Higher emotional which worksin connection with the third state of consciousness, when you becomeaware of yourself that makes higher emotional centre work In a stateof objective consciousness, higher mental centre is working We havespoken about this recentlyAbout sex centre, if you have any definite questions we can discussthem, but you have not enough material yet for me to speak about it ingeneralMR D Does apparent familiarity with a sequence of events, whichmay not have been personally experienced previously, necessarilydenote the presence of recurrence?MR O Can you tell me something concrete? You see, you know whatyou are talking about, but I do not know If you can tell me whichevents, what sequence, begin with an example, then perhaps I cananswer